Movies: Fortune hunter

A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch....

In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance....

Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly bu...

Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatiou...

A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society....

A clerk, choked by debts, accidentally knows a rich girl and for the sake of wanting to leave the Trailer Trash he loves. But the latter did not easily give up...

Frenchman is engaged to marry South American heiress but a fortune-hunting friend disrupts the romance and marries the girl himself. She later realizes her mistake after her no-good husband has frittered away most of her fortune and she turns back to...

Misunderstanding separates a poor but honest sheet-music salesman from his wealthy fiancée. But circumstance places him on the board of an exclusive girls’ school, where he can prove his integrity, as well as his love....